4. The Tor Browser Works

These are just servers run by thousands of volunteers across the world.

At each relay, your traffic is rerouted so often that it becomes impossible to tell where the origin point is (or where you’re physically sitting).

The Tor browser “runs over the top of Speedify,” according to the company. This is a nice perk, because while Tor boosts privacy, it doesn’t help with security.

So a VPN on top would help you take care of both issues at the same time.

5. Extremely Simple to Use

When you first open Speedify, it will connect to the server you were last on. Connection is extremely fast and easy.

If for any reason you need to change the server, click on the “Connected” section with the yellow padlock. This opens up the server list with a vast number of server options.

As you can see, some states and countries have more than one server location.

So you can either just choose the state or country, or you can get really granular and choose a particular server in that state or country.

And that’s about it!

6. Kill Switch Included for an Extra Layer of Protection

When connecting to Speedify, it temporarily cuts off your Internet connection while it finds the VPN server.

However, it also cuts off your connection when transferring between different servers or if you lose your Speedify VPN connection.

That’s a good thing, believe it or not.

The purpose of the kill switch is to stop your actual IP address from being temporarily revealed while the Speedify connection is dropped.

Your IP may be revealed for a split-second but that is more than enough for anyone who may be tracking you, such as a government. So it’s yet another layer of privacy protection for hiding you actual IP.

7. You Can Hire a Dedicated Server

A dedicated server means you don’t have to share resources with other people.

You can be selfish and hoard everything for yourself, instead.

This might be overkill if you’re just looking for basic uses, like getting around firewalls and geo-blocks. Having a dedicated server is not cheap.

However, it’s worth it for professional streamers.
For example, if you need to live stream events on social media for work, you’ll require a ton of bandwidth. Having a dedicated server means that no other users would be hogging the bandwidth when you needed it.

If you decide to go the route of the dedicated server, paying annually would be cheaper in the long term.

8. Good Customer Support

Speedify offers both email and social media for quick customer support queries.

There is also a Knowledge Base you can check out before emailing them. But there is no live chat.

Fortunately, even their email support is pretty quick.

When you email Customer Support, you get an autoresponder reply stating their hours of operation are Eastern Standard Time.

But it only took their team around 90 minutes to get back to me.

Here’s what I asked:

What VPN protocols do you support? What about OpenVPN?

Do you give discounts for teams? It is not so clear on the site.

Does Speedify work with routers, Tor, gaming consoles, and SmartTV’s?

Do you offer a money-back guarantee?

They replied to everything, except about Tor.
So I wrote back for clarification on the Tor issue and got back the following response 15 minutes later that Tor and Speedify work together on top of one another.

In other words, just switch Speedify on, then start using Tor.

Pretty helpful overall!

9. Reasonable Pricing

Speedify’s month-to-month option comes in at $8.99 a month.

That’s in-line with the ~$7-10 monthly pricing range we’ve seen.

However, moving forward with the annual option will save you a ton at only $49.99 a year.

You can also buy a dedicated server for around a hundred bucks a month.

All major credit and debit cards are accepted. So are PayPal and Amazon Pay. There doesn’t seem to be any support for cryptocurrencies or cash payments.

They split up plans into Starter, Individual, and Team options. The Starter is slightly limited on monthly data, but the others are all-in, featuring everything we’ve covered so far.

And all plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Speedify Cons

Speedify delivered a ton of interesting features at a reasonable price.

We were mostly happy with our experience.

Unfortunately, a few potential deal breakers did pop up. Here’s a summary of the biggest issues.

However, they do make a few servers available for torrenting and Peer to Peer downloads.

You simply have to choose “Connect to P2P Server” in the server list. So you are not given a choice really in what server to use. You are just assigned to one.

Do I Recommend Speedify?

They are in the USA and therefore part of the Five Eyes agreement. They use a third-party payment processor, also in the USA.

They are leaking DNS like a sieve. Their US server speeds were not good.

They don’t currently support Linux, routers, gaming consoles, or SmartTV’s. BitTorrent only works on a few select servers and Netflix doesn’t really work, either.

And to top it all off, their monthly fee is quite high. Therefore, there are a lot of better options from what we’ve reviewed so far.

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1 user reviews for Speedify

David 5/10September 22, 2018

My experience with Speedify...

After having the service for a little while now, here are my thoughts:

I don't like the 5 Eyes Agreement compliance either (but at least you get U.S. based support since they're based out of Philly) and find the DNS leaks troubling as well, though the issue seems to be device/app dependent. For example, on my Windows 10 PC I have zero leaks on all test sites, whereas I do have leaks on their Android app, which I have also sideloaded to my Android TV box for use with Kodi while I wait for Google Play Store support to be added. My solution to this (which I hope works as I understand it to, though I'm certainly no expert) is to use Cloudflare's DNS servers in my router config to serve as a backup measure of security as they have the fastest available servers in the country and are very privacy minded as they don't store any detailed info in their logs and delete said logs every 24hrs.

As for overall performance (namely speed) of the service, my experience has not been congruent with yours. I have AT&T gigabit fiber at my house and have found that every other VPN service I've tried has absolutely decimated my speeds (over 90% loss in most cases) and render my expensive ISP service useless. These include but are not limited to: VpyrVPN, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, IPVanish, PureVPN, etc.. Even when using their U.S. based servers, I'm only losing about 10-15% of my normal speeds both up and down, and I'm sorry but if I have to choose between occasional DNS leaks and using a non-logging DNS backup config or reducing my $90/mo gigabit internet connection to a paltry 50 mbps download and 5 mbps upload, I'm choosing the former.

I've spoken with Kevin on their support team about a few other issues I've had and found their customer service to be FAR better than the outsourced queue-card garbage that everyone else on your list seems to use, and with what I believe to be superior overall tech to the competition both in terms of encryption protocols and bandwidth capacity, I have faith that they will resolve these issues in time as they continue to refine their service. If they don't, then I'll jump ship to whoever can do better when the time comes, but as of now, this is the best that I've been able to find. In the spirit of YMMV, I will concede that perhaps other ISP and VPN combo's will work better for other people, but my experience at both my old house with Charter internet and my new house with AT&T fiber has been that all of your top-rated VPN apps are just too slow to be worth bothering with unless performance is a distant, and I do mean distant, second to your security needs.